Top Gun Lawyer
Keeps Big Presence
With Small Firm

In the past year, Herbert Stern has emerged as a major player in not one, but two, of the biggest corporate slugfests currently unfolding in the courts.

At first glance, he might seem an unlikely choice. His firm has 21 lawyers -- a far cry from the goliath 500-lawyer operations that land much of the work of representing moneyed and high-profile defendants. Indeed, bare-knuckles litigation is only part of his suburban New Jersey practice: Stern & Kilcullen does a good amount of other work, like tax law and estate...